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The ‘refugee crisis’ frequently tops the news, from the local to the global. But beyond the ‘border spectacle’, relatively little is known about how policies toward refugees are actually implemented. What happens to ‘refugees’ in Berlin? How does ‘integration’ work out in practice? What players get involved? And how do their actions collectively affect outcomes for the refugees? Informed by anthropology of policy and based on students’ fieldwork in venues ranging from sports clubs and integration language classes to ‘homes’ housing unaccompanied minors and administrative or volunteer organizations dealing with refugees, this panel suggests some tentative findings. Despite the diversity of the issues covered, some common policy-relevant threads can start to be delineated: the imperative to better understand the informal practices and networks that form an integral part of the rapidly evolving system of refugee governance, the need to grapple with the unintended effects of these policies, and the political questions which they raise.
Janine Wedel is a Visiting Scholar at the Hertie School of Governance during the Academic Year 2015/16. She writes about governing, corruption, foreign aid, and influence elites through the lens of a social anthropologist. A university professor in the School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs at George Mason University, she is a pioneer in applying anthropological insights to topics dominated by political scientists, economists, or sociologists. Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (previous winners include Mikhail Gorbachev and Samuel Huntington), Wedel is also a four-time Fulbright fellow and recipient of awards from the National Science Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Social Science Research Council, German Marshall Fund, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Ford Foundation, and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, among others.
Information on participating / attending:
To register, please send an e-mail to events@hertie-school.org, stating your affiliation.
Date:
05/11/2016 12:30 - 05/11/2016 14:00
Registration deadline:
05/10/2016
Event venue:
Friedrichstraße 180
10117 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Economics / business administration, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
05/03/2016
Sender/author:
Vincent Venus
Department:
Pressestelle
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event54195
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